Improve Your Technical Slides (34)
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I’ve had to rely at times on silence and on talking quick / Defending myself with nothing but my walking stick. —Buck65 Here are nine easy tips that will help you communicate better at your next conference. Figure A Can you read me now? Dan Grigsby’s presentation at RubyFringe was an intentional example of this. All the titles were at the top, with humorous stock photos below. Keep it in the top third, if possible. ...
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robertpostill said:
I thought there was some good solid advice on this post. Particularly I'm coming to the conclusion I hate the Mac remote.
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Ted said:
I don't agree with all these points, but at least somebody is thinking and sharing.
Sorting things out (3)
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I recently packed up everything I own and moved. I'd lived in my old place for about nine years and I have the packrat gene on both sides of the family tree, so I had a lot of crap to sort through to figure out what to move and what to trash, as well as which box what should go in. Now that I'm here in the new place, I've had to sort through the ...
The dead zone of slick (77)
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There was a terrific duo playing live music at the farmer's market the other day. They were well-rehearsed, enthusiastic and really good. Being a patron of the arts, I bought a CD. I hated it. I've thought a lot about what turned me off, and I think it's the curve above. Faced with the excitement of making a CD and all the knobs and dials, they overproduced the record. They went from being two real ...
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ghuth said:
Another awesome bit of perspective, Seth.
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Tim said:
This is exactly the concept I talk about when talking about our trade show booth. Whenever I think about upgrading it, we end up in the dead zone.
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Scott said:
So true of many music projects these days. I actually think there are less of these than in recent years.
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Sue B said:
eBay sellers - READ THIS!
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barry said:
found this from 4 days ago, catching up on google reader. be absolutely authentic or spend for the edge. the peril is not quite in either direction
Like your hair is on fire (48)
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In the US, the next two weeks are traditionally the slowest of the year. Plenty of vacations, half-day Fridays, casual Mondays, martini Tuesdays... you get the idea. What if you and your team went against type? What if you spend the two weeks while your competition (and the forces for the status quo) are snoozing--and turn it into a completed project? So, here's the challenge: Assemble your team (it might be just you) on Monday ...
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Muthu Ramadoss said:
Great piece of advice. Finish it or Trash it, but make a choice.
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Peppermint said:
Hey, anche gli americani si fermano ad agosto! Due settimane dopo di noi... Concordo al 100% con Godwin :)
Explaining REST to Damien Katz (63)
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Damien Katz recently caused a stir on a bunch of the blogs I read with his post entitled REST, I just don't get it where he wrote As the guy who created CouchDB, I should be a big cheerleader for RESTful architectures. But the truth is, I just don't get it. For CouchDB, REST makes absolutely insanely perfect sense. Read a document, edit, put the document back. Beautiful. But for most applications, enterprise or not, ...
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afroginthevalley said:
Amen bro.
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mattw said:
check it out, YaRvSd arises. (Yet another rest v SOAP debate).
theNextTrain MARC (1)
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Developer: theNextTrain Release Date: 2008-08-16 Price: $4.99 Simple to use, readily available, theNextTrain Schedules are a commuters' best friend. This application provides offline train timetable information clearly organized by trip and by station. If knowledge is power, than knowing when the next train will arrive is a powerful productivity tool. With timetable information at your fingertips regardless of your location, theNextTrain Schedules delivers the information you need, when you need it most. Contains information for ...
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Developer: theNextTrain Release Date: 2008-08-16 Price: $4.99 Simple to use, readily available, theNextTrain Schedules are a commuters' best friend. This application provides offline train timetable information clearly organized by trip and by station. If knowledge is power, than knowing when the next train will arrive is a powerful productivity tool. With timetable information at your fingertips regardless of your location, theNextTrain Schedules delivers the information you need, when you need it most. Contains information for ...
complete street (2)
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complete street n. A street designed to accommodate various forms of transportation, including cars, public transit, bicycles, and pedestrians. Example Citations: A key tool in the process would be a "complete streets" that says when roadways are being constructed or resurfaced, spaces for bicycles and pedestrians will be included. "From a cost effectiveness perspective, the best way to get these projects accomplished is to integrate them into ongoing work," Olson said. But a complete streets ...
MiGhtyDocs (1)
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Developer: V1ru8 Release Date: 2008-08-10 Price: Free With MiGhtyDocs you can view your documents from Google Docs on your iPhone. You can have your important documents always in your pocket even if you haven't an Internet connection. Just open your document once on your iPhone then it is cached. It's a simple and small application and it will improve over the time. Currently are spreadsheets and presentations not supported. It works just with normal text ...
Distribution vs. Content vs. Monetization (1)
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Hipmojo has an interesting article that asks the question is content the new king? One point he makes is that excessive distribution dilutes the value of good content. This is certainly true, and yet there is very little content so valuable that hoarding it benefits the content owner. Information wants to find distribution and people that don’t syndicate content risk having other people syndicate competing content, slowly devaluing the overall genre of content. If Yahoo ...
Managing Large Web Server Farms: Puppet (9)
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Puppet provides a mechanism for managing a heterogeneous cluster of Unix-like machines using a central configuration system and a declarative scripting language for describing machine configuration. The declarative scripting language abstracts away the many differences in various Unix-like operating systems. Puppet is used for server management by a number of startups including PowerSet, Joost and Slide. Typical Puppet Architecture In a system managed using Puppet, Pupper Master is the central system-wide authority for configuration and ...
Localizing Rails (8)
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After releasing the localized_dates plugin, I thought that it’s about time that someone wrote a comprehensive tutorial on how to fully leverage the power of the current Rails i18n implementation. Granted, Trevor Turk wrote a pretty cool tutorial that shows simple localization in Rails, but it’s missing details on how number formats, dates, etc. can be localized. This is where my tutorial starts. For a change, I decided not to write a long article about ...
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Developer: V1ru8 Release Date: 2008-08-10 Price: Free With MiGhtyDocs you can view your documents from Google Docs on your iPhone. You can have your important documents always in your pocket even if you haven't an Internet connection. Just open your document once on your iPhone then it is cached. It's a simple and small application and it will improve over the time. Currently are spreadsheets and presentations not supported. It works just with normal text ...
Radar Theme: ARGs (2)
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[This is part of a series of posts that briefly describe the trends that we're currently tracking here at O'Reilly] As the players of The Lost Ring watch the Beijing Olympics, they'll see more than the rest of us. They've been playing an Alternate Reality Game, creating new significance for events and locations in the real world. Companies are interested in ARGs because they see players able to interact with brands at multiple levels, as ...
Kaminsky DNS Patch Visualization [Video] (8)
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Painless monitoring with Scout (1)
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I write about monitoring from time to time. We host about 15 applications for our clients, so monitoring our servers is a high priority for us. We've experimented with a large number of tools including monit and god. Both work great as process monitors, but they aren't built for some of our most important tasks. Enter Scout. In less then a week I've been able to port all of our ad-hoc monitors to Scout. See ...
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It's impossible not to ponder striking it rich at a start up, but there's another alternative if you're looking to make some good money -- build your brand.In January of 2005 I created a blog. I truly can't remember why I created it, but I do remember that I was making $60,000 a year. Then in February I joined ThoughtWorks and my blog became part of blogs.thoughtwork.... I had instant readership, but not a lot ...Shared by Anders (5) Andy Yates (0) Avdi (4) dcalavera (3) Dean (15) freireag (21) glaforge (38) jessmartin (18) John (12) marcolz (19) Matt McKnight (6) Matthew (25) Mike F (450) Mike Subelsky (3) Phillip Calçado "Shoes" (10)Contribute comment
